Marina Abramovic Rhythm 0 Performance — Video Top

If you are interested in exploring the performance further, you can find the detailed audio commentary from the MoMA website .

: On a table, she laid out 72 objects, which ranged from benign and pleasurable to overtly dangerous****. They included:

The performance unfolded in three distinct stages, documented in a series of slide photographs, as no official video was recorded that night. Art critic Thomas McEvilley, who was present, provided one of the most detailed written accounts****. marina abramovic rhythm 0 performance video top

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Marina placed 72 objects on a white table. The items ranged from benign (a feather, a glass of water, an apple) to dangerous (a scalpel, a loaded pistol with one bullet). She then stood motionless in front of the audience and announced: If you are interested in exploring the performance

For the first three hours, the audience was polite and playful. They kissed her, gave her a rose, or moved her arms. The Middle (Escalation):

A discussion on the role of the spectator in performance art. Art critic Thomas McEvilley, who was present, provided

A passive object, available for manipulation by the audience.

Marina later said, "If you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you."

Marina Abramović: 7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2020); Walk Through Walls: A Memoir (2016); Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present exhibition catalogue (2010).